Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
includes proofing tools, such as dictionaries or grammar rules, for more than one language. To see which languages are included with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, see
Proofing tools that are available for each language.
 | Note Any custom dictionary setting that you change in one Office for Mac
application affects all the other applications. For example, you set many of the custom dictionary settings in Word, and then see the changes the next time you open PowerPoint
or Excel. |
 | Check the spelling of an alternate language |
If you create a document that contains text in different languages, you will want to use the appropriate dictionaries to check the spelling of each language that you include. To do this, you must indicate the language of your text so that when you run the spelling checker, the correct dictionary language is used.
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Select the text that's written in another language.
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On the Tools menu, click Language.
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In the Mark selected text as box, select the language that you want, and then click OK.
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After you mark the text, check the spelling in your document.
When the spelling checker encounters the marked text, it uses the specified language dictionary to check the text. Then, the spelling checker returns to the default language dictionary to check the rest of the document.
| Change the default language for the spelling checker |
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On the Tools menu, click Language.
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In the Mark selected text as box, select the language that you want, click Default, and then click Yes.
| Note Changing the default language affects other language settings, such as the formats used for dates, numbers, and currencies. |
